Only Change Is Eternal; the Method of Forging the Heavenly Court Gathers National Destiny

Although, with the Chat Group's functions, Ying Zheng could directly impart the relevant knowledge into Fusu's mind, allowing him to instantly "master" those formulas, theorems, and historical facts.

That was not what Ying Zheng wanted to do.

What he needed was the process of Fusu being "cultivated," not the result of being "filled."

Forcing growth and achieving everything in one step would only produce an empty shell that knew what but not why. What Ying Zheng wanted was an heir capable of independent thought, able to draw inferences from what he learned and truly turn that learning into wisdom for governing a nation.

Thus, he had Fusu study, calculate, investigate things, observe, and experience the process of exploration from nothing to something, from confusion to enlightenment.

Throughout that process, Fusu tempered his character and broadened his horizons.

Mathematics taught him the order and logic of the world. Physics let him glimpse the forces governing all things. Chemistry taught him the wonders of change. Astronomy filled his heart with the vastness of the Universe.

The knowledge itself was certainly precious, but even more precious was the way of thinking cultivated through the process of acquiring it.

Rationality, verification, exploration, and freedom from rigid preconceptions.

Rather than being completely steeped in the ideas of Confucianism and becoming a Confucian scholar.

Confucianism spoke of benevolent governance, valued rites and music, and respected Order. It had its positive significance, and Ying Zheng did not reject it wholesale. But he would never allow his heir to become a pedantic Confucian scholar who could only prattle on about morality and righteousness, bound by needless formalities, incapable of adaptation, unable to distinguish benefits from harm, and ignorant of the Heavenly Dao and the principles of nature.

Fusu was first and foremost the Crown Prince of Great Qin,